This new The Mars Volta album

Is growing on me.

I may have to dig out my King Crimson “Red” album to go along with it.

I’ve never been a prog-rock fan, but there are certain albums that defy an easy genre label and my accompanying bias, and I think this one (like the KC album) is going to become one of them.

Of course, I’ve been chasing this all with a generous helping of GYBE and Sonic Youth’s “Daydream Nation” so it may just be the total sonic wash aspect that’s getting me.

In other music news, my cube mate has absconded with my new Hem album. Damn her! (I did hear it before it vanished…oh, “Redwing”! What a great song.)

Switching to poetry — SPEAK was fun if a little disheveled last night. badgary read cool new poems from his forthcoming chapbook, Walt premiered a new poem about a 30-.30 rifle called “The Winchester Verses” (cough), and in general things were moony and fun. New themes were picked and will be headed to the Asylum website shortly…

Meanwhile, the shifting tempos and Zep-esque vocals of The Mars Volta continue to shred the office air…

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48 responses to “This new The Mars Volta album

  • shockfactor

    I love King Crimson! see, you’re developing good taste…I think…

  • shockfactor

    I love King Crimson! see, you’re developing good taste…I think…

  • shockfactor

    I love King Crimson! see, you’re developing good taste…I think…

  • shockfactor

    I love King Crimson! see, you’re developing good taste…I think…

  • shockfactor

    I love King Crimson! see, you’re developing good taste…I think…

  • shockfactor

    I love King Crimson! see, you’re developing good taste…I think…

  • radioactiveart

    It was the same old poem, but he added a coda to it, of sorts.

  • radioactiveart

    It was the same old poem, but he added a coda to it, of sorts.

  • radioactiveart

    It was the same old poem, but he added a coda to it, of sorts.

  • radioactiveart

    It was the same old poem, but he added a coda to it, of sorts.

  • radioactiveart

    It was the same old poem, but he added a coda to it, of sorts.

  • radioactiveart

    It was the same old poem, but he added a coda to it, of sorts.

  • timpressionist

    It was actually a new poem? Huh. I totally read that as sarcasm. But then I should know better, cause you’re not ever sarcastic, Tony.

  • timpressionist

    It was actually a new poem? Huh. I totally read that as sarcasm. But then I should know better, cause you’re not ever sarcastic, Tony.

  • timpressionist

    It was actually a new poem? Huh. I totally read that as sarcasm. But then I should know better, cause you’re not ever sarcastic, Tony.

  • timpressionist

    It was actually a new poem? Huh. I totally read that as sarcasm. But then I should know better, cause you’re not ever sarcastic, Tony.

  • timpressionist

    It was actually a new poem? Huh. I totally read that as sarcasm. But then I should know better, cause you’re not ever sarcastic, Tony.

  • timpressionist

    It was actually a new poem? Huh. I totally read that as sarcasm. But then I should know better, cause you’re not ever sarcastic, Tony.

  • radioactiveart

    Dude, it still puzzles him, I suspect.

  • radioactiveart

    Dude, it still puzzles him, I suspect.

  • radioactiveart

    Dude, it still puzzles him, I suspect.

  • radioactiveart

    Dude, it still puzzles him, I suspect.

  • radioactiveart

    Dude, it still puzzles him, I suspect.

  • radioactiveart

    Dude, it still puzzles him, I suspect.

  • penny_player

    it was a disheveled reading but a hell of a lot of fun. good poetry, and then there was the new Winchester 30-30 composition….ah

    ya know, at least he’s writing something new, that’s he’s not reading the same things, I mean he is still reading the same things, but he is adding to the repetoir. And I mean this sincerely, it is a good thing.

    Of coures his comment on my last poem still puzzles me.

  • penny_player

    it was a disheveled reading but a hell of a lot of fun. good poetry, and then there was the new Winchester 30-30 composition….ah

    ya know, at least he’s writing something new, that’s he’s not reading the same things, I mean he is still reading the same things, but he is adding to the repetoir. And I mean this sincerely, it is a good thing.

    Of coures his comment on my last poem still puzzles me.

  • penny_player

    it was a disheveled reading but a hell of a lot of fun. good poetry, and then there was the new Winchester 30-30 composition….ah

    ya know, at least he’s writing something new, that’s he’s not reading the same things, I mean he is still reading the same things, but he is adding to the repetoir. And I mean this sincerely, it is a good thing.

    Of coures his comment on my last poem still puzzles me.

  • penny_player

    it was a disheveled reading but a hell of a lot of fun. good poetry, and then there was the new Winchester 30-30 composition….ah

    ya know, at least he’s writing something new, that’s he’s not reading the same things, I mean he is still reading the same things, but he is adding to the repetoir. And I mean this sincerely, it is a good thing.

    Of coures his comment on my last poem still puzzles me.

  • penny_player

    it was a disheveled reading but a hell of a lot of fun. good poetry, and then there was the new Winchester 30-30 composition….ah

    ya know, at least he’s writing something new, that’s he’s not reading the same things, I mean he is still reading the same things, but he is adding to the repetoir. And I mean this sincerely, it is a good thing.

    Of coures his comment on my last poem still puzzles me.

  • penny_player

    it was a disheveled reading but a hell of a lot of fun. good poetry, and then there was the new Winchester 30-30 composition….ah

    ya know, at least he’s writing something new, that’s he’s not reading the same things, I mean he is still reading the same things, but he is adding to the repetoir. And I mean this sincerely, it is a good thing.

    Of coures his comment on my last poem still puzzles me.

  • brags2bitches

    Walt premiered a new poem? about a gun?

    ::coughs back::
    I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down.

  • brags2bitches

    Walt premiered a new poem? about a gun?

    ::coughs back::
    I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down.

  • brags2bitches

    Walt premiered a new poem? about a gun?

    ::coughs back::
    I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down.

  • brags2bitches

    Walt premiered a new poem? about a gun?

    ::coughs back::
    I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down.

  • brags2bitches

    Walt premiered a new poem? about a gun?

    ::coughs back::
    I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down.

  • brags2bitches

    Walt premiered a new poem? about a gun?

    ::coughs back::
    I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down.

  • blindlyinnocent

    Funny. My roommate is a huge huge fan of Mars V-whatever, and is trying to get me to go to the May 1 concert.

  • blindlyinnocent

    Funny. My roommate is a huge huge fan of Mars V-whatever, and is trying to get me to go to the May 1 concert.

  • blindlyinnocent

    Funny. My roommate is a huge huge fan of Mars V-whatever, and is trying to get me to go to the May 1 concert.

  • blindlyinnocent

    Funny. My roommate is a huge huge fan of Mars V-whatever, and is trying to get me to go to the May 1 concert.

  • blindlyinnocent

    Funny. My roommate is a huge huge fan of Mars V-whatever, and is trying to get me to go to the May 1 concert.

  • blindlyinnocent

    Funny. My roommate is a huge huge fan of Mars V-whatever, and is trying to get me to go to the May 1 concert.

  • hot_rod_poet

    I’ve got a few GYBE and Silver Mount Zion albums. If you’re trying to restore your collection on the cheap, I could burn you some copies. I have Lift your Skinny Fists, the Unexploded Ordinance one, the double album with the grocery store announcement sample and one more I’m not remembering… I know that I don’t have the older album with Dead Flag Blues on it, but I do have just an MP3 of that one track…

    Sorry for the bad memory on the album titles. I’m sorta busy at work, or else I’d go on Amazon and look them up.

  • hot_rod_poet

    I’ve got a few GYBE and Silver Mount Zion albums. If you’re trying to restore your collection on the cheap, I could burn you some copies. I have Lift your Skinny Fists, the Unexploded Ordinance one, the double album with the grocery store announcement sample and one more I’m not remembering… I know that I don’t have the older album with Dead Flag Blues on it, but I do have just an MP3 of that one track…

    Sorry for the bad memory on the album titles. I’m sorta busy at work, or else I’d go on Amazon and look them up.

  • hot_rod_poet

    I’ve got a few GYBE and Silver Mount Zion albums. If you’re trying to restore your collection on the cheap, I could burn you some copies. I have Lift your Skinny Fists, the Unexploded Ordinance one, the double album with the grocery store announcement sample and one more I’m not remembering… I know that I don’t have the older album with Dead Flag Blues on it, but I do have just an MP3 of that one track…

    Sorry for the bad memory on the album titles. I’m sorta busy at work, or else I’d go on Amazon and look them up.

  • hot_rod_poet

    I’ve got a few GYBE and Silver Mount Zion albums. If you’re trying to restore your collection on the cheap, I could burn you some copies. I have Lift your Skinny Fists, the Unexploded Ordinance one, the double album with the grocery store announcement sample and one more I’m not remembering… I know that I don’t have the older album with Dead Flag Blues on it, but I do have just an MP3 of that one track…

    Sorry for the bad memory on the album titles. I’m sorta busy at work, or else I’d go on Amazon and look them up.

  • hot_rod_poet

    I’ve got a few GYBE and Silver Mount Zion albums. If you’re trying to restore your collection on the cheap, I could burn you some copies. I have Lift your Skinny Fists, the Unexploded Ordinance one, the double album with the grocery store announcement sample and one more I’m not remembering… I know that I don’t have the older album with Dead Flag Blues on it, but I do have just an MP3 of that one track…

    Sorry for the bad memory on the album titles. I’m sorta busy at work, or else I’d go on Amazon and look them up.

  • hot_rod_poet

    I’ve got a few GYBE and Silver Mount Zion albums. If you’re trying to restore your collection on the cheap, I could burn you some copies. I have Lift your Skinny Fists, the Unexploded Ordinance one, the double album with the grocery store announcement sample and one more I’m not remembering… I know that I don’t have the older album with Dead Flag Blues on it, but I do have just an MP3 of that one track…

    Sorry for the bad memory on the album titles. I’m sorta busy at work, or else I’d go on Amazon and look them up.

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